TEORIE LINGUISTICHE PER LA LINGUISTICA COMPUTAZIONALE

At the end of the course, students will be able to autonomously analyze a non-literary prose text by identifying and classifying its syntactic constituents. They will also be able to defend their own judgements, based on the main notions developed by 20^th century theories. Students will eventually be able to compare and discuss two or more competing analyses by highlighting weaknesses and strength of each one.

Lectures, laboratorial activities.

Different competing approaches will be compared in order to account for the following theoretical objects: word, compound word, word classes, collocation, multiword expression, phrase, discontinuous constituent; sentence, embedded clause, marked word order, text, cohesion strategies. The correlation between punctuation and syntactic relations will also be addressed.

Each theoretical topic will be the subject of exercises, which will also take into account some of the most common applications in constituency parsing (lemmatization, corpus tagging etc.).

- Graffi, Giorgio 2001, 200 years of Syntax. A critical survey, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, Benjamins, § 3.3.1 (pp. 98-105), §4 (111-163), §§ 5.2.6-5.3 (pp. 195-198), §§ 5.3.5-5.3.6 (pp. 213-226), §§ 6.2.3 (pp. 254-255), §§ 7.2-7.3.5 (pp. 274-308), §§ 9.4-9.4.3 (pp. 403-424), §§ 10.4.1-10.4.2 (pp. 472-480).

- Menza, Salvatore 2020. "Per la rappresentazione delle polirematiche: selezione argomentale predefinita, referenzialità, endo- vs. esocentricità", in (a cura di) I. Valenti, Lessicalizzazioni “Complesse”. Ricerche e teoresi / Lexicalizaciones “Complejas”. Investigacion y teorias / Lexicalisations “Complexes”. Recherches et théorisations, Canterano (RM), Aracne, pp 215-235.

- Rijkhoff, J. 2007, Word classes, Language and Linguistics Compass 1(6):709-726

(https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236011719_Word_Classes)

- Robins, R. H. 1986 The Technē grammatikē of Dionysus Thrax in its historical perspective: the evolution of the traditional European word class systems in Swiggers et Van Hoecke (sous la direction de) Mot e parties du discours. Word and word classes. Wort und Wortarten, Leuven-Paris, Leuven University Press/Peeters, pp. 9-37.

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